Asks the City Manager to reduce the Inman Square sub-district maximum from 10 stories to 8

Policy Orderrequest to the City ManagerInman Square zoning (CAM-10)

How it started

Dec 8, 2025 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, Nolan, and Wilson — a formal request that the administration scale back the recommended Inman Square building heights.

What happened

Dec 8, 2025 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SOBRINHO-WHEELER”

Dec 15, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted, 7–1. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (one absent)

View the roll call

Voted yes (7)

Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
Sumbul Siddiqui
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons

Voted no (1)

Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

Absent (1)

Burhan Azeem

Roll call of Dec 15, 2025 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 8, 2025

Public Comment (1)

1 written comment received (2025-12-22). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.